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Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements

Phoronix: Linux 3.12 Brings Big AMD Radeon Improvements

The Linux 3.12 kernel when released in the coming weeks will bring a number of new features and improvements to AMD Radeon graphics cards, including faster performance. For many Linux games tested the Radeon Gallium3D OpenGL frame-rates were making double-digit gains through upgrading the Linux kernel.

Impressive. I seem to remember that radeon was not that far away of Catalyst, this could bring it on par or even ahead, at least on the tested benchmarks.
So two questions for the AMD devs :

- What's in the 3.12 kernel that brings such a large performance increase?
- Is this increase supposed to occur on the whole Radeon range of cards or was Michael just (un)lucky to pick the one that sees the best results?

- What's in the 3.12 kernel that brings such a large performance increase?
- Is this increase supposed to occur on the whole Radeon range of cards or was Michael just (un)lucky to pick the one that sees the best results?